KettlePizza

For this week’s review I was sent the KettlePizza from George Peters Jr. at KettlePizza.

KettlePizza started in early 2010 when owner Al Contarino came up with a new way to cook pizza on a Weber kettle grill. Builders at heart, Al and his business partner George Peters Jr. took on the challenge to design, manufacture and sell the KettlePizza right out of Al’s barn in Massachusetts. Customers responded and they soon had to move to a new manufacturing and distribution center in Groveland, MA. They’re also very proud that their core products are designed and manufactured exclusively in the USA and are now shipping all over the world.

The KettlePizza is an American Made stainless steel sleeve that turns your kettle grill into a wood fired pizza oven.

The KettlePizza fits between the kettle grill top and bottom creating a cooking chamber. The opening in the front allows access to that chamber. The heat comes up from the back of the kettle, along the rear of the cooking chamber and over the top exiting at the front opening. This setup creates a consistent heat loss that flows over the top of the pizza ensuring properly cooked pizza toppings. The KettlePizza can maintain consistent temperatures upwards of 750 degrees with the use of charcoal and hard wood.

Below is a picture from the KettlePizza website that shows how this process works:

The KettlePizza kit I received was the KettlePizza Super Deluxe USA 22.5″. This kit includes the following items below:

(Extra items in my KettlePizza kit included a visor and another rolling pin)

I was really impressed with how easy the KettlePizza was to put together. I was able to put it together in around 5 minutes without the use of any tools.

Once the KettlePizza was all put together it was time to start making some pizza. I gathered all the ingredients and brought them outside. I then lit a full charcoal chimney while my father was working on the first pizza.

Below is a picture of my father rolling out the dough for the pepperoni pizza.

When the charcoal was good and hot I used a really cool new charcoal chimney with a drop out bottom to drop the coals in the bottom back of the grill and then placed in some cherry Mojobricks Bar-B-Qubes on top of the hot coals. Love the Mojobricks!

After that I put the grill grate in-place and then the pizza stone on top of that followed by the Weber kettle lid. I adjusted the vents as needed until the KettlePizza thermometer topped out at over 700 degrees. Then I threw in some cornmeal on the top of the pizza stone and used the pizza peel to slide the pepperoni pizza onto the stone.

Half-way through the roughly 7 minute cook time I used the pizza spinner tools to rotate the pizza 90 degrees. Once the pizza was finished cooking I used the pizza peel to remove it from the grill and placed it on a pizza pan.

Next up was the sausage supreme pizza I made (minus the mushrooms).

Below are some pictures of the making of that pizza.

I followed the same steps as with the first pizza above and once it was done cooking it was time to come off the grill.

As you can see in the picture below, our 3 year old loved the pepperoni pizza. 🙂

I really enjoyed the great wood fired taste of the sausage supreme pizza.

Final Thoughts

The KettlePizza is a great quality, American Made product for people who love the wonderful taste of wood fired pizza!

I really enjoyed spending time with my family making homemade pizzas on the KettlePizza. It’s a product that works extremely well and is the perfect device for home pizza making.

Your welcome Jay. good review. now that is what a father looks for when making homemade pizza. That huge smile and sauce all over the face. Watch out as the kids will not like the pizza place joints anymore like mine

Jay ~~~very informative and great lay out of the process and product~~~Pizza is one of those things that done right is extraordinary ~~and being able to get the stone and heat hot enough~~well most of us do not have built in Pizza ovens~~so this is a reasonable facsimile ~~~but done wrong pizza can be just so so ~~i think most of us have had enough so so pizzas ~~any chance they will do a giveaway contest??? at some point ~~just curious ~~thanks once agin for the well done info ~~smile~~Denise

Just put together my new Weber 22.5 yesterday. I have got to have this attachment. Love wood fired pizza. Jay you have made my mind up. Out of the different pizza attachments I have seen this by far looks to be the best and more authentic. I will have to hint around for Laura to get me one. lol

Thanks Kevin! Congrats on the new kettle! This would be a great product to have for use on that new kettle. I also think they are priced just right too. You can make some awesome wood fired pizzas on the KettlePizza!

I’m glad this turned out so well. I was skeptical how well it would turn out, but then again it’s pizza. I don’t know if there is such a thing as bad pizza. Might have to check this out as a possible option.